http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...nisters-review

About time this went to the courts.

I see this is has already been brought in to the private sector and the government have lost a court case in that area and are taking it to the High Court as a last resort. If they lost that then they'll have to cancel it and pay everyone back

According to numerous housing associations across the UK the waiting list for a single bedroomed home in social housing is now 6 years, so anyone who applies to b moved will be forced to pay the tax for at least 6 years.

The other thing is the government are doing this to save money but it will cost them more. How? Well say a social house costs £100 a week, in the private sector it would be £150/wk. At 25% social housing would cost the government £75, whereas in the private sector where many of the social tenants would need to move to it will cost the government £112.50 so housing the same folk This is a simple example, obviously a 2 bedroom to a 1 would not cost £150, but they will either be similar or more NOT less.

Even a council has called for it to be called off as they have no housing to move people into.